The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-04-13

isette and collar tied with white cravat
The hat, of almond chip, rolls on the left
side, and is trimmed with a twist of soft
laurel green silk and large bird.
Models for spring bonnets are shown
in the princesse, cottage and coronei
shapes made of Milan, Dunstable and
fancy straws of many varieties, satin
braid and chip, which is once more in
favor. They are very light and unusually
becoming, and are worn without strings
The small poke, fitting close to the head
at the sides, and cut up in the back to
show the hair, with high front trimming
and the peak over the forehead filled in
with gathered lace or tulle, is one of the
prevailing shapes. The materials for
trimming are most dainty, gauzes ,tulles,
dotted and beaded nets, silk muslin,
and embroidered crepe lisse in most
exquisite tints being combined with picot
edged velvet or fable ribbons and superb
sprays of flowers.
Not for several seasons have flowers
been so lavishly used as they are this
spring. They tower on the top of every
bonnet and hat amidst clouds of tulle or
gauze and tall loops of ribbon, taking
the form OF high montures in some cases,
and in others, of wreaths encircling the
face, with branching sprays and clusters
on top. Roses with buds and branches
of full size, the flowers made of exquis-
ltely shaded velvet, Grape or silk, and the
leaves and tender green shoots of silk,
ornament some bonnets. Very light
green in delicate tints, a color most APP
propriate to spring, is very fashionable,
and touch of it is seen on most bonnets,
either by way of the foliage or tiny
green bow nestled amongst the trim
mings. Primrose yellow is another fash
ionable color. A small princess bonnet
of brown tulle, that was very pretty,
showed this color in bunch of nodding
jonquils in the top trimming.
The novelty of the season in colors is
Charles X red-a color that is entirely
new this spring. 1t is totally dissimilar
to any OF the reds that have been in vogue,
being shade of pinkish crimson, exactly
the color of the new American Beauty
rose. 1t reminds one of the old-fashioned
cherry or solferino tints. What fashion
intends we shall do with it now that she
has given 1t to us remains to be seen, for
1t is very vivid and entirely too bright to
be used but sparingly In costume. A
little of 1t in the shape of few bows, or
the trimming ON bonnet, would be all
that good taste will allow. 1t is safe to
say, however, that as the season advances
1t will be modified into wearable tints, lust
as heliotrope, from an almost impossible
purple, changed before the close of the
winter into delicate, artistic shades that
were simply charming.
Much lace is used in spring millinery.
both white and colored in some cases
covering the frame of the bonnet itself,
laid on in rows, and pleated into high
frills on top as foundation for the flower
montures. Sprays. of syringa, blue for
get-me-nots, lilies of the valley, white
and purple lilacs, crysanthemums, yellow
and pink, pansies, narcissus, mignonette,
primroses, apple blossoms and rose
sprays are some of the favorites For
trimming the rough straw field flowers,
daisies, buttercups and lunches of blue
ragged robins are appropriate.
A novelty that obtained favor with mil
liners is the fancy lace braids woven in a
variety of tints with colored chenille, or
tinsel threads, that are so easily applied
on bonnet frames in any desired shape.
A velvet or Grape brim, with trimming
of ribbon and flowers to match, is all
that is required to complete the bonnet.
Such small capotes have no strings.
The colors seen in the new importa-
tons of spring millinery are in pale, deli
cate tints capable of very artistic combi-
nations. Heliotrope, lavender, terra
Gotta, salmon and shrimp pink. almond,